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ISK HISTORY REPEATING
The fear of war in Europe comes and goes in waves. At
ITSELF?
By "Windrush"
Continuous pressure
Hitler's war. History is not re- peating itself. The pattern today is a different one.
kind of blind deflance of fate. roo In perfumed drawing
different.
the beginning of the year it
Hitler, with German deformin- had receded
Senator McCarthy is reported strikingly.
every opportunity for expansion | many,
ation for "Weltmacht oder About Easter there was a where expansion seemed safe and pean war, Tsarist Russia had on absolute overthrow was ready to diplomats to do the fighting for
To avold a major Euro- dergang" absolute power or we
Nie- as saying, "For nearly 20 years have allowed dilettante new burst of anxiety; it easy,
several previous occasions yielded pit himself against the world in sceras
to have begun in
to pressure from the European powers, and had Paris, and it
thereby lost rose out of
prestige. alarming reports of the ex- tent and speed of Russian rearmament. Recently, and for no particular reason, the tension has lessened again.
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MOUNT DAVIS
REFUGEES
ar
of the
Same tactics
.
13ince the révolution,
rooms x x x," Russia's attitude is Like Gennany, it is set on Welt out of place in the atomle age.
All this hand kissing really is macht," but it has no intention of
•
It seems that the visit of the
risking "Niedergang." So it will peg away, work underground,' turn every opportunity to ne foreign affairs advisur to Korea count, and, gather the fruits of was as Dulles could be, Not a
But it will try to avoid Seoul bothered itm. Moderate, comfort
permanen
•
So much better than glving
For example it mointained a century against the Khonates of
Com- Central Asia, and subdued them munist Russia has carried on the
cautious, -one by one. But when it came up same
though · often war."
It went to war. For preserving peace, it is of against the European powers, it maladroit, tactics, great Importance that people
was, though often unfriendly and extreme limits to appease Hitler dressed to the Company CHINA should believe that peace-even unco-operative, extremely careful and to avoid being attacked by
"Struggle for Communists condemn the Yet this is only a moderate stability." MAIL LTD.
uneasy. bitter.
In its actions. There was no blu- him. precarlous! pence-is a practical
The Hong Kong papers have n possibility Mag, gambling afdacity, like that Munich settlement by Franice and comfort. For a war danger-and
Great Britain; but Munich was a an acute war donger remains, ziruggle for permanent readability. If either the Russian Government. of Nazi Germany.
This did an Influential part
not prevent Tsarist minor cut of appeasement com- though it is a different kind of but it's uphill going. American
British
Russia from public.
three times going pared with the Hitler-Molotov danger from that of the Hitler In the end, period. Judging from Russia's should becANT
really convinced into major wars against Britain agreement of 1930.
Chinng has made a grant of that war in the long run was in France in 1854, agninal Japan Russia came into the war only past history, the danger lies either
Talwan dollars to ott evitable, then the danger of its in 1904, and against Germany in because it was actually invaded. in Russia becoming convinced ve
1914. But the first war, the Cri- What is the upshot of all this? that the West is on the very point wounded military personnel. early outbreak would be very
mean War, is the elossie example It is summed up in a phrase used of launching war against Russia, much sharpened. Thinking that war sooner or later was certain.
of a war which none of the com- by Mr. Churchill four years ago or in Russin becoming convinced them a pension, the one side or the other would satants really wanted, and which in a speech in the Unlied States. that the West is utterly supine: "fussin desires not war, but the and that it could take chances concentrate On
the broke out from accident and mis- choosing
fruits of war." It is consistently with impunity, moment most favourable to liselt management.
It was the kind of war which aggressive. Anything like friendly Paradoxically, the best chance) 10L trips." It is easy to imagine circum- could really happen when atom co-operation with Russian is ex- of peace may lie in an improve
bombs and hydrogen bombs have tremely dimeult. It will exploit ment of Russia's intelligence trivial Incident,
Nobody in the West is made war so dangerous: to these every chance weakness in the In-service.
Don't know about your-but-I new circumstances, governments ternational situation in order to really going to take the initiative
nuthority. But it in attacking Russia. On the other rather like the why these vill dentes to do this without war. have a strong reason to see that expand its
year It hand, if Russin should attack, it festivals keep dragon on such accidents do not happen.
stand The Russo-Japanese War, on will not make a gamble war. It will in the long run
no after year. the
the other hand, was the result of goes to war either when it feels chance against mobilisable sheer miscalculation: Russis had itself cornered and with its back might of America. no idea of what a power it was to the wall as in 10114or If these two certain facts could his parents, both
be made absolutely clear to the provoking. The 1914 war was one when it has drastically miscalcul- took the initiative in declaring as it did with Japon in 1904. In which, though Russia formally ated the strength of its opponent Kremila, or if its own knowledge of the outside world was abso- war on Austria-Hungary, it was To this extent, the position lutely objective, then there would really manoeuvred into war by today is really different from be good chances of peace for this the actions of Austria and Ger- what it was in the years before generation.
for its outbreak.
The fight between, refugée Nationalist soldiers and local trade unionists at the Mount Davis camp
on Sunday merits strict investigation by the authoritics concerned, and the arrest and punish-stances-a ment of those who instigated minor erists in which neither it. It is the sort of thing side would normally have thought that ought not to be allowed of war, but in which one side, aut of very despair and the fear of to happen again. Nobody the future, took the fatal plunge. relishes the presence of these thousands of people, least of all those who live near by, but in all fairness it must be said that they have given surprisingly little trouble. Most of them come from the North, and in conversation with some of them we have found them friendly and polite.
Parallels
on the Western side this perilous One of the factors prompting belief that war is inevitable is the habit, of drawing parallels between the events which led up to Hitler's war and the events of today.
Certainly it is tempting to innke the comparison, In some waya Stolln is as menacing as Hitler, as tenacious, and even more for-
He has reached the stage of・・・
Egypt's model cotton
city
Today there are two Egypts) fine source of revenue for were, at first, a trifle reluctant, Expectant mothers In Egypt are Old Egypt, with its tombs hard-pressed Governments.
used only too
to abandoning Hitler in 1936. This is for him and temples and mosques
other But Young Egypt, the
themselves to the doubtful ser- Egypt, turns to the West for in-vices of village midwives who what the Anschluss was for Hit- and ancient, tumbling, tospiration and courage to stamp out learn their traile on the trial and ler." "We are drawing near the tuous bazaars is the Egypt bad string reactionary ways of Munich
period."
It is these
nambulist walk to war and Sta- lin's more calculating, less emo- tional progress in the same diree-
tion.
Operation tortoise
to point
•
"PAL pilots 1e Sanday in
Friend, this is IDL speculation.
•
•
"He was born in Mexico while English, were touring the United States,"
Their birth control methods were equally remote.
*
My parrot
Has been banished to the
garret,
He caused such anguish With his languish.
▸
Friend of Myrtle's has married second lieutenant The Best one got away.
According to a
the
'Don't
Copenhagen report, King Frederick will not. Dane to meet Mrs. Roosevelt.
Some radio comedians seem to error systern.
There are also a chest hospital, think that original sin is the sin phrases which suggest a corres- that pulls in tourists avid for the past the past that travellers
a of being "original. pondence between Hitler's som-this sort of thing, and is a And so amusing and picturesque, run by the Government, and
Many are beginning to see general discuse hospital manned;
"General Graham would like Egypt's past es 2 matier
for by the company's medical staff. 'shame. They are becoming in- Bath contain first-class equip-to see a bit more cor bread ad
grees served to creasingly enger
to ment-and from them
mass mustard, * efforts being made to eliminato X-ray examination has photo-President at the White House at human misery, to bring: security graphed the chests of every this aval submari alatio: and prosperity to those unhappy worker employed in Mehallo, get me wrong,' he cautionel.' millions who
struggled For there is definito ground fol As if we would! through life with little to hearten the belief that poorly-nourished them but hopes for an corly ra- Egyptians, turning from the sun. lease in death.
shine and vegetable cet of thei fields to work in factorles, will be a prey for TB. unless deter mined steps are taken to check the disense in its earliest contagious stuges, Treatment of ear, nose, teeth, and cycs is also given at Mehalla,
On the face of it, the in-midable. It is a natural tendency cident looks like a case of to see in all his acts the counter- gross provocation by trade parts of Hitler's. unionists out on the spree. So far as we know there had been no trouble of any sort, in spite of the appalling conditions under which these refugees live, until the labour union members came along, The fact that some of them belonged to Government workers' unions makes an of ficial enquiry all the more necessary. We must say we
the sympathise with
TC fugee soldier who said to a representative of this paper: "We are down and out, if you want to say that; but if these people come here to demon- strate before us and de- liberately provoke us into a fight, we have no choice."
The political opinions of the two parties are of con- cern to them alone. They do not influence us one way or the other. But we are con- cerned with the maintenance of law and order and the -insistence-on-certain-stand-foreign-policy-
ards of
history.
It is a good thing to learn from
One of the lessons of Munich (UBS that appeasement does not pay, Appeasement In any case is a bad thing. Yet it would be very unfortunate If.
Without moving from home, in trying to learn the lessons of) 1939, we misread the realities of British builders are doing more 1950. It would be ironical and than anybody to solve the dangerous if we insisted on ap- chronic housing (shortage of plying in 1950 the mensures which Australia, says Arthur Morley would have been appropriate be-
from Sydney. do not fit fore 1939 but which 1050 at all.
concerns ing -oxtraordinarily Britain:
young
line proclaims the justice of to the Tung Wan authorities SECOND CLASS
Once
By Margaret Gilruth
required for their cilule,
Р
0 model
V7
welfare
conviction
non-
this
out of
"Operation Tortoise"-the ship-: ment of British prefabricated Does Russion aggression differ homes, schools, hospitals and fac-
Schools for all in any major respect from Hit- ler's? To answer this question is torics to Australia is now
gathering speed. It is belleved to An energetic Ministry of Social u kind of gamble. A wrong con- be unique in Britain's long-and Affairs is doing much to rehove
Although today, in Egypt, chil- disastrous varied trading history.
distress: it is being greatly as dren go to school as a matter of cluston may lead to policies. Yet there are Arialn
hundred One
companies course, this was Egyptian prefabricated sisted by
not so when thets about Russia today which schools are being shipped this governed by directors who be their parents were young. So do deserve careful reflection. year for the New South Wales lleve that healthy and hoppy Mehalla, as a cog in its social
Modern Russia, in spite of re- Government alone. They will ac-workers step up production. volution, is in sane respects-commodate 8,500 children, includ
Installed scheme, has evening classes for parents to especially in all that
emigrants from Cost £1,500,000
banish Keracy.
The fore- "Egypt's shining example-of-in-man-type-of-parent is instructed This operation will earn Britain dustrial progress Ls conduct necessary like traditional Russia. If there is
In undoubtedly
photography, needlework, thereto. It is detestable and Russian history. It is that Russia, of its kind ever done.
one fact which stands out in £350,000, and is the largest thing Mchalla, the Manchester of the foreign languages, and so on. despicable to kick men when though consistently
This comprehensive social re- Middle East, where there is a Imperialist Representatives of an aircraft labour force of 22,000, turning form programme costs the com- they are down, and to taunt and aggressive, has been cautious company in Austraila have an-out 100,000,000 yards of cottons pany about £900,000 every year. and provoke hapless people in its imperialism and aggression.nounced that they have completed and 1,300,000 yards of woollens It has been, undertaken with the
It has not recklessly attacked the
to sell £1,000,000 negotiations living in circumstances in-
short-cut to each great powers. It has seized on worth
year. factory-made buildings ferior to the cattle across the
Mehalla should be inspected bywards safeguarding the health of throughout Australla. These will all tourists and business execu- all employees, towards Improving valley a few hundred yards
include hospitals, schools, nurses' tives with Egypt on their travel production Agures, and-most homes and general buildings. away.
Kong didn't want this pro-
agenda.
hours' important-towards putting It is only two The People's Government transferred to a new site at
A further $3,000,000 worth of run by car from Cairo, and the great industrial centre homes
have been bought from same distance from Alexandria. reach of pernicious Communist in Peking have set in this Junk Bay. There they are to British Arms and are being ship- And after even the briefest of propaganda which becomes in- respect a pretty good exam- be looked after by the Social ped now.
visits, travellers will shed most stantly rife in Egypt if there is ple which local stalwarts Welfare Office of the Govern- The Menzies Government be- if not all their prejudices re- unrest and dissatisfaction among
workers. would do well to follow. They ment and put to useful work. Heves that only with Britain's gording Egypt.
assistance in housing can Austra- have exposed themselves to
Here they will and Then came a last-minute la succeed in its so-year plan to town built exclusively for the plenty of criticism about many hitch. The several hundred, build a 20,000,000 population. workers, Inaugurated by King
Faroult in things, and the recent rever-blind and disabled among the
1948, it covers 67 Acres, can accommodate 850 mar- sal of policies all along the refugees presented a petition
ried workmen and 1,700 ba. chelors; and it is equipped with that criticism. But the treat opposing their removal to
all amenities and social services Canada's Red Indians' will
welfare, Д ment of their fellow-citizens Junk Bay. They wanted to stand by the "Great White King"
maternity hospital, mo- who were on the other side remain on their present site So reports Patrick Nicholson dern spacious canteens, public in the civil war has not been or be transferred to some from Ottawa, following
wow of Indian chiefs held to dia-
Po baths, separate schools for boya a subject of criticism. Indeed, other locality nearer the city cuss the problem of what they and girls, a vast sports ground,
a market place, a mosque. they have been fair and even than Junk Bay. These people call their "second-class" status in
It cost £1,500,000 £110,000 magnanimous to the troops have special claim
a
on Canada. who were captured or
consideration, sur- public
but For some past the Indians have provided by the Government, the An Egyp- rest by the company. complained of
Gabr, rendered. They have been they would be better off in treatment, and at the Kahnawake Professor of Architecture at the
discriminatory tlan, Maitre All Labib embodied in the army and a camp with the other re- Indian village the chieftains of Cairo University of Found 1, was so far as we know there has fugees, where they can be the Mouwk tribe invited Nichol responsible for the layout and
to attend their pow-wow the buildings. been no discrimination, Nor properly looked after. Pre- while they discussed their "cold were they disbanded and sumably many of these were war strategy against the Cana- left to fend for themselves. among the group sent to Tal-dian Government,
The bachelors' quarters consist The worst they had to face blem. But it is with us all "Now we are: second-class citizen of a series of dormitories' which |
Chief Twin Pall complained: was indoctrination, and it the same and we cannot af-at the hands of the Canadian Each man has a bod, a table and scrupulously clean.. certainly didn't take the pro- tord to be as callous about Prime Minister, whose French a cupboard, and all share sitting vocative forms adopted here it as the Nationalists were. ancestors were the enemies of our rooms, recreation rooms, and
ancestors. We want to by the pro-Communist youths,
govern shower baths, Lack of energy rather ourselves under our own tribal The sro some girl bachelor The public would also like than wont of thought have laws." to have a little more light on been responsible for the in- The big money attractions of they are not particularly popular. why it is all these people effective handling of the the United States, plus the fact The folk working at Melailo are have been left in such sur problem hitherto, Adequate equals led to many Indians quite right for girls to live out
that there they are treated as simple people who think it is not roundings 80 long. The funds ought to be, provided, seriously considering leaving side a family circle. But Abdu! problem seems to have together with export stall, Canada,
Radi Bey, the man in charge of
· But delegates of the Mohawks, Mchalin's been
Vast social In so as to set up oven the dis- supported by Tuscaroras too long
servico and scheme, thinks that it won't be purely private hands. More abled in productive occupa- other Indians, demanded a new long before the girls themselves vigour and initiative on the tions. In Britain and many deal for the tribes,,
insist that they have a right to the Government] other part of
countries .. wonders The pressure of these groups on freedom and privacy.
the Canadian Government”, han
adequately results. These unfortunates the most terrible disabilities, ndence that the nation's 100,000 furnished, electric light provided had been. In this wretched inflicted in wartime. The Redskins will get full rights of by the company, a kitchen a
can be run into one if a family 'acuphemism for many out the re-settlement of all They deserve their "rights," awells, over the years,
wecks before it was an these people, and then see to these Indians. During the world Anti-T.B. care nounced that they would be it that they are given the wars many of them fought with
distinction in the Allied armies, Maternity and child woltare wan some months ago and chance to live useful and and they play a useful role in the clinics are patronized with row- not allowed to land...... Hong, productivé Ilyen,
rational life! -
...”ing enthusiasm by imnothers 'who
left
Bon
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Few girls
quarters--for 100-but so far
might have produced better have been done in overcoming been such that now there is co- data-three rooms,
Married men betupy fine little
camp--a word that is really first thing to do is to carry tion will cease.
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